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VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️

2024-08-15 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Announcement and promotion · tags: His own products discussed, AI

In a Short, Ali announces that VoicePal, the AI ghostwriter app he and his friends built over eight months, is now available to everyone on the App Store; he says speaking ideas aloud has always helped him past writer's block.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Writer's block and the help of speaking ideas out loud to someone

  • ★★ Facing writer's block and a blank page, Ali says he has always found speaking his ideas out loud to someone sitting next to him incredibly helpful; the catch is that it needs a friend to talk them through with. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Because he could not find a decent solution on the market, Ali and some of his friends built VoicePal themselves, an app he calls a ghostwriter in your pocket. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — VoicePal, a ghostwriter in your pocket, now on the App Store

  • ★★ Ali describes how VoicePal works: you hit record on your phone and speak as ramblingly as you like, it transcribes everything, and one button turns your thoughts into a draft written exactly like you. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ VoicePal, which Ali's team has been building for the last eight months, is now available to everyone on the App Store. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali says he has used VoicePal every day for the last six months and that it has completely changed his writing workflow. — 00:00:29

In the description and comments

  • ★★ During the six months Ali used VoicePal daily, his team refined it with more than 1,000 beta testers; the app is free to try on the iOS App Store. — creator comment
  • ★★ Ali Abdaal (channel): The channel says VoicePal's first release is iOS only and that the team is working on an Android version and will share updates as soon as it can. — creator comment

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